From the US Attorney's Office-Omaha
GRAND JURY INDICTMENTS FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEBRASKA
September 27, 2021
Acting United States Attorney Jan W. Sharp announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 18 unsealed Indictments charging 22 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
* Wendy J. Bailey, age 66, of Omaha, is charged in a four-count Indictment. Counts I – IV charge Bailey with mail fraud beginning on or about June 9, 2020 and continuing to on or about August 25, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 20 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Nolan B. Balfour, age 32, and Maegan L. Balfour, age 30, both of Nehawka, Nebraska, are charged in a three-count Indictment. Count I charges Nolan Balfour with bank fraud beginning on or about January 1, 2016 and continuing to on or about January 31, 2018. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 30 years’ imprisonment, a $1,000,000 fine, a five-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count II charges Nolan Balfour with bank fraud beginning on or about September 1, 2014 and continuing to on or about February 28, 2018. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 30 years’ imprisonment, a $1,000,000 fine, a five-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count III charges both defendants with a false bankruptcy declaration beginning on or about August 16, 2018. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 5 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a one-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Wesley S. Cassidy, age 26, of Wallace, Nebraska, is charged with armed bank robbery of the Flatwater Bank in Gothenburg, Nebraska on or about August 19, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 25 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a five-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Dallas Faamausili, age 35, of Renton, Washington, is charged with possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine on or about May 26, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is life imprisonment, a $10,000,000 fine, a five-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment
* Cody Lee Fischer, age 49, and Lukas Allen Vogt, age 28, both of Guttenberg, Iowa, are charged in a two-count Indictment. Count I charges Fischer and Vogt with possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine on or about August 26, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is life imprisonment, $20,000,000 fine, a ten-year term of supervised release, $100 special assessment. Count II charges Fischer with possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime on or about August 26, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 5 years’ imprisonment consecutive to Count I, $250,000 fine, a five-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment
* Joseph W. Higgins, age 63, of Lincoln, Nebraska, is charged in a two-count Indictment. Count I charges Higgins with cyberstalking between on or about December 1, 2018 and continuing to on or about June 4, 2019. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 5 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count II charges the defendant with interstate transmission of threat to kidnap or injure person between on or about May 1, 2019 and continuing to on or about May 22, 2019. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 5 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Anthony Dwayne Jackson, age 38, is charged in a seven-count Indictment. Counts I through III charge Jackson with distribution of methamphetamine after a prior serious drug felony on or about January 21, 2021 and continuing through February 25, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 30 years’ imprisonment, a $2,000,000 fine, a six-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count IV charges the defendant with distribution of 5 grams or more of methamphetamine after prior serious drug felony on or about March 4, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is life imprisonment, an $8,000,000 fine, an eight-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Counts V and VI charge the defendant with distribution of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine after prior serious drug felony on two dates in March, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is life imprisonment, a $20,000,000 fine, a ten-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count VII charges the defendant with distribution of methamphetamine after prior serious drug felony on or about April 8, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 30 years’ imprisonment, a $2,000,000 fine, a six-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Jessica A. Lovering, age 29, of Omaha, and Courtney Laparele Clark, age 35, are charged in a three-count Indictment. Count I charges Lovering and Clark with conspiracy to pass and utter forged treasury checks from on or about March 21, 2021 continuing to on or about May 20, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 5 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count II charges the defendants with passing and uttering forged treasury checks on or about March 26, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 10 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count III charges the defendants with passing and uttering forged treasury checks on or about April 26, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 10 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-years term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Brandon Terrell Davis, age 38, of Lincoln, Nebraska, is charged in a two-count Indictment. Count I charges Davis with distribution of cocaine and fentanyl resulting in serious bodily injury on or about August 13, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is life imprisonment, a $10,000,000 fine, a five-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count II charges the defendant with distribution of cocaine and fentanyl resulting in serious bodily injury on or about August 16, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is life imprisonment, $10,000,000 fine, a five-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Oliver J. Glass, age 46, of Fremont, is charged in a two-count Indictment. Counts I and II charge Glass with cyberstalking between on or about March 6, 2020 and continuing to on or about December 22, 2020. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 5 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Gregg N. Grant, age 37, is charged in a two-count Indictment. Count I charges Grant with being a felon in possession of a firearm on or about August 18, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 10 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count II charges the defendant with being a felon in possession of a firearm following a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence on or about August 18, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 10 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Richard Allen Knight, age 51, is charged with possession of visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct beginning from on or about May 2, 2021 and continuing to on or about June 29, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 20 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a life term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment, and $22,000 in additional special assessments.
* Marco Antonio Mejia, age 46, is charged with reentry of a removed alien after having been convicted of a felony on or about August 18, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 10 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Jose Mendes Hernandez a/k/a Jose F. Mejia-Guiterrez, age 25, is charged with reentry of a removed alien after an aggravated felony on or about September 16, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 20 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Amos J. Mosel, age 35, of Blue Hill, Nebraska, is charged in a three-count Indictment. Counts I and II charge Mosel with felon in possession of a firearm beginning on or about August 20, 2021 and continuing to on or about August 25, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 10 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count III charges the defendant with possession (or sale) of a stolen firearm or ammunition on or about August 20, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 10 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Ross Nelson, age 47, of Grove, Nebraska, is charged in a two-count Indictment. Counts I and II charge Nelson with false statement in connection with Federal Crop Insurance beginning on or about December 16, 2015 and continuing to on or about January 15, 2016. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 30 years’ imprisonment, a $1,000,000 fine, a five-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment
* Porfirio Rodriguez Reyes, age 40, is charged with reentry of a removed alien after an aggravated felony on or about September 14, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 20 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Deantra Lamar Watson, age 41, is charged in a three-count Indictment. Count I charges Watson with transportation of fictitious obligations of the United States on or about September 2, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted 25 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a five-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count II charges the defendant with possession of counterfeit currency on or about September 2, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 20 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Count III charges the defendant with possession of a document-making implement or authorization feature on or about September 2, 2021. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 15 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
* Christopher D. Weaver, age 47, is charged in a thirty-two-count Indictment. Counts I through XXXII charge Weaver with willful failure to pay over tax beginning on or about 2015 and continuing until 2020. The maximum possible penalty if convicted is 5 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.